Beyond the sound barrier : the jazz controversy in twentieth-century American fiction / Kristin K. Henson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henson, Kristin K., 1968-

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Jazz in literature.

American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.

American fiction--African American authors.

Music and literature--History--20th century.

Music and literature.

History.

Musical fiction--History and criticism.

Musical fiction.

African American musicians in literature.

Jazz musicians in literature.

Music in literature.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

vii, 159 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2003.

Summary:

"Beyond the Sound Barrier" examines twentieth-century fictional representations of popular music-particularly jazz-in the fiction of James Weldon Johnson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Toni Morrison. Kristin K. Henson argues that an analysis of musical tropes in the work of these four authors suggests that cultural "mixing" constitutes one of the central preoccupations of modernist literature. Henson situates the literary use of popular music as a culturally amalgamated, boundary-crossing form of expression that reflects and defines modern American identities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-54) and index.

ISBN:

0415943000

OCLC:

50722203